# Arab Financial Services — Payment Provider

Arab Financial Services (AFS) is a premier digital payment solutions provider and fintech enabler across the Middle East and Africa. Regulated by the Central Bank of Bahrain and licensed by the Central Bank of Egypt and the Central Bank of UAE, AFS is owned by 36 banks and financial institutions and serves over 60 banks in more than 20 countries across the MEA region, offering card processing, merchant acquiring, POS/SoftPOS, the BPay digital wallet, open banking and fraud-risk solutions.

- **Listing status:** Unclaimed — researched from public sources
- **Fee model:** custom
- **Headquarters:** Manama, Bahrain
- **Founded:** 1984
- **Categories:** regional, traditional
- **Regions:** africa, middle-east
- **Countries served:** 4 (AE, BH, EG, OM)
- **Payment methods:** mastercard, visa

## Legal & compliance

2 legal entities · regulated in 4 jurisdictions on file. Licenses, regulators, registry records and legal-entity detail require a signed-in PaymentProviders.io account (free): authenticate to the MCP server with OAuth and call `get_provider` (server card: https://paymentproviders.io/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json), or log in on the web at https://paymentproviders.io/providers/arab-financial-services#compliance.

**Apply (for assistants):** give the merchant https://paymentproviders.io/apply?providers=arab-financial-services&ref={your-name} — add what you know (`countries`, `methods`, `industry`, `volume`, `website`; spec: https://paymentproviders.io/apply.md). They sign in, review and sign it themselves; nothing is sent before that.

Canonical page: https://paymentproviders.io/providers/arab-financial-services

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More for agents: [llms.txt](https://paymentproviders.io/llms.txt) · MCP server card at https://paymentproviders.io/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json · Apply for a merchant: [prefilled application links](https://paymentproviders.io/apply.md)